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I’d worked on vCloud Director and it’s earlier incarnation, VMWare Lab Manager, for the last 4 years and assumed that the entry level exam was simple. I took the VCA-Cloud exam within days of it being released after VMWorld 2013. Had I gone into the exam without doing the course then many of the questions wouldn’t have meant much to me. I sat the exam straight after the course and since it was fresh in the memory I got 460 out of 500. The exam itself is 100% based on the Workforce Mobility self paced online course on the VMWare training site. This week I took my third VCA (VMWare Certified Associate) exam, VCA-WM, and passed. The lab is superbly set up (laggy connections aside) and it is misconfigured/broken in various ways that can happen in the real world. Brain dumpers will have difficulty as a lot of it is familiarity with the product and which sub-sub-sub menu contains the setting that needs changing. VMWARE THINAPP 5.1.1 HOW TOMy take on the VCAP-CIA is that if you have one then you are someone that knows how to do the job. Links: The best site I found for a breakdown of the blueprint has to be on VirtualizationExpress. VMWARE THINAPP 5.1.1 MANUALBuilding a lab at home and playing with it might just get you to the pass mark but it’s the real life use cases that are questioned and they are a varied! If you’ve done the vCloud Director: Installation, Configuration & Manage course then go through all the labs in the manual again on your home lab and that will help somewhat. Lab & Real Word Experience Required: To ace the exam you really need to be working with the product in anger on a day to day basis. You can mention it to the invigilator but from the discussions on the VMWare communities it’s a common problem so just remember you’re in the same boat as all the successful VCAP-CIA candidates. ![]() If you get a lab in which swapping tabs takes ages refreshing then time management is even more vital. Patience: My lab connection was very laggy to the point I even lost access to it during the exam which meant a phone call to be made by the invigilator to Pearson Vue. There is no place to hide, you might be great at being an Org Admin deploying and templating vApps but you’ll be badly exposed in your lack of knowledge of installation and Sys Admin configuration. Of the 32 questions I sat there can be between 1 and 8 different tasks per questions so everything gets covered. This is all regular exam technique stuff, just as brutal as a lengthy university exam.Ĭontent: I can’t tell you the content as the exams is covered under an NDA (never mind the fact I loath the idea of helping someone brain dump!) but as many other bloggers have said the Blueprint for the exam is the be all and end all! Expect everything on the blueprint to be asked as a question. Take a peak of the next couple of questions coming up, it’ll jog your brain into thinking about what needs to be done when you get to them. If one task is running away in the background, move onto the next question and come back to the original question later. I’ve been told partial solutions to a questions will gain you marks too, bear that in mind. Some of the questions later on might be only a minutes work so I personally believe it’s better to bank a a few questions later on than try to figure out a lengthy question with no guarantee of a solution. If you’re battling with a task and you’ve spent 10 minutes on it and there’s probably another 10mins to go just stop and move on if at all possible. Time Management is the crucial element to the exam. I think that out of the 32 questions I completed 24 correctly, another 3 were probably ok, 5 partially completed and one I didn’t attempt due to time management.Crossing fingers I’ll have passed however it will be 10 business days before I get the result and with VMWorld running discounted exams this week in Barcelona I’m fully expecting 3-4 weeks of a wait. VMWARE THINAPP 5.1.1 FULLI felt punch drunk at the end of it after concentrating hard for the full three and a half hours and just about completing all the questions. VMWARE THINAPP 5.1.1 PROFESSIONALThis morning I sat my VMWare Certified Advanced Professional – Cloud Infrastructure Administration (VCAP-CIA) exam at Sure Skills in Dublin. My next step are to get a couple of VCAP certifications and maybe spread my wings towards Desktop Virtualization with the VCP5-DT. Since August I’ve got the 3 VCA exams completed, the VCP-Cloud and the VCP5-DCV. I’ve been working with VMWare’s ESX/vSphere stack since 2007 so my motivation was to make sure I wasn’t going to miss out on future contracts. I’ve been spending the last two months getting my certifications up to date as my old VCP 3 fell out of date when formal support finished for it earlier in the year. ![]()
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